This is no time to 'relax'

4:16 PM,
Sep. 16, 2013

Written by

Alan Wagner
OPINION

Buncombe County Republican Chairman Henry Mitchell (guest commentary, Sept. 8 AC-T) assures us all is right with the world. "Relax," he tells us. "Across America people are voting. Democracy is working just fine." It seems only a few years ago a Republican president assured us Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, too. Mitchell's defense of the Republican power grab on voting rests solely on making North Carolina just run with the pack.

Over and over again he tells us how North Carolina is now just like most other states. Mitchell fails to mention that 30 states have Republican governors, and ...